He wept, and said, “Blessed are you, O God, and blessed is your name forever! Blessed are all your holy angels!
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Hour. This is not in the other versions. Calmet.—It would intimate that the operation was natural. Menochius.—Yet some think that the cure was too instantaneous; (Drusius) or that the miracle consisted in the revelation of a remedy, till then unknown. Serarius.—The effect seems to have been of the same nature as that produced by the heart, and so forth Calmet. 6:8. Worthington. Calmet.—Estius believes that the optic nerve was entirely burnt. If the external coat of the eyes was only covered with a sort of skin, it might be removed by the gall of several fishes. Calmet.—Callionymi fel cicatrice sanat & carnes oculorum supervacuas consumit. Pliny xxxii 4. Menochius.